Alan Paton Quotes

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Alan Paton

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• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Need

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Person
  • Intelligence

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Yourself

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Good
  • God
  • School

• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• So, then, even the dust is a resting-place of hope for the people of God.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • China
  • Beijing

• I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

  

  Alan Paton
  • God
  • Weak
  • Sinful